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Updated: May 4, 2025
They had arrived by this time at the capstan-house, and were standing near the pianofortes, all of which had been placed together on the floor of the sail-loft, the packing-cases having been ripped off and probably used for firewood.
You spend good money on der prize-fighters. How you know? Tell me dat! How you know?" "I know vat I know," Silverstein held on sturdily a thing Genevieve had never before seen him do when his wife was in her tantrums. "His fader die, he go to work in Hansen's sail-loft. He haf six brudders an' sisters younger as he iss. He iss der liddle fader. He vork hard, all der time.
But Copplestone gave no more than a passing glance at it what attracted and fascinated his eyes was the face of a man who had come up from her depths and was looking out of a hatchway on the top deck looking expectantly at the sail-loft.
From the gate a grass-lined carriage drive led to the waters of the harbor and the wharfs. At its extreme end was the band-stand, flanked on one side by the cottage of the admiral, on the other by a sail-loft with iron-barred windows and whitewashed walls. Upon the turf were pyramids of cannon-balls and, laid out in rows as though awaiting burial, old-time muzzle-loading guns.
One would have thought they had been made in a big sail-loft instead of in a snow-drift. Neat-fingered fellows like this are priceless on such an expedition as ours. On the second Fram expedition they used double tents, and as, of course, nothing is so good and serviceable as the thing one has not got, the praises of double tents were now sung in every key.
There, lying moored to the wharf, at a point exactly opposite a tumble-down sail-loft, was one of those strongly-built tugs which ply between the fishing fleets and the ports. It was an eminently business-looking craft, rakish for its class, and it bore marks of much recent sea usage.
Anybody can do a good grocery business here, with the strangers off the boats" the harbor was a lively one "all you have to do is carry a good stock. That's why he gets along so well. But he's drove nearly all the local folks away from him." I listened to this comfortable sail-loft sage, and going back to the grocery store one afternoon took another look at the long, grim-faced silent figure.
Glancing towards the hammock as he entered, Captain Delano said, "You sleep here, Don Benito?" "Yes, Señor, since we got into mild weather." "This seems a sort of dormitory, sitting-room, sail-loft, chapel, armory, and private closet all together, Don Benito," added Captain Delano, looking round. "Yes, Señor; events have not been favorable to much order in my arrangements."
Copplestone's recollection of him as he showed himself on board the Pike was of a very smartly attired, rather dandified person only some deep scheme, he knew, would have caused him to assume this disguise, and he watched him with interest as he rolled ashore and disappeared within the lower story of the sail-loft.
The work, in the meantime, went on and spread. Some of the people came over from Mr. 's parish to ask me to come and preach to them in a large sail-loft, which they had prepared for the purpose. My friend would not consent to my going, and I was obliged to give them a refusal.
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